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[Daniel Fore <daniel.p.fore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Guys,

I guess Reddit is going to do a blackout on the 18th where the whole sight will be replaced with a single page describing what's wrong with SOPA and how you can contact Congress and fight it. 

I think we (even though we're small) could make a few waves by participating in this blackout and doing something similar. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

www.elementaryos.org

On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I hardly think we wouldn't be affected by it. We use Facebook, Google (plus, docs, search, mail, etc), Twitter, YouTube, etc to reach our users and they are all affected.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
> 
> www.elementaryos.org
> 
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Сергей <shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I can't see SOPA/PIPA directly affecting elementary. We hardly have
>> any user-posted content on the website, and the one we have tends to
>> be freely licensed. We do rely on external services like imagebin,
>> pastebin, etc, but that's not vital and we could probably host
>> something similar ourselves. Fortunately, SOPA/PIPA don't seem to
>> allow boundless patent abuse [yet], so Apple and Microsoft's puppet
>> consorciums won't be able to instantly shut us down either, the best
>> thing they can do is not mentioning us (like they do with WINE).
>> So I'd rather not tie it into elementary and instead present it as
>> being out of our scope and not affecting us directly, but crippling
>> the overall UX.
>> 
>> --
>> shnatsel
>> 
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